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Tuesday, August 26, 2014

GOP stacked Courts Legislate from the bench, used to legitimize Radical Agenda.

Republicans are having a field day trashing the constitution
with win after win in what is now our conservative activist courts, most notably the Supreme Court. They waited a long
time for this, so it shouldn't be a surprise to anybody they’re using the court to push
and pass everything. It’s almost comical.

Republicans knew many of the laws they passed would be legally challenged, and welcomed the idea, knowing the courts were theirs to command.

One Wisconsin Now pulled the curtain back on the GOP scheme to funded the campaigns of
all four recent activist state Supreme Court justices:

Today’s state Supreme Court decisions supporting Gov. Scott
Walker’s attacks on workers and voters were spearheaded by a four-member
majority bloc that was elected through $8 million in spending by two of
Walker’s biggest special interest supporters – Wisconsin Club for Growth and
Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce … extremely active in the Supreme Court
races in support of each of the most recent electoral efforts of Justices
Annette Ziegler, Michael Gableman, David Prosser and Patience Roggensack. The
four were elected to 10-year terms in campaigns from 2007 to 2013.Gov. Scott Walker admitted he personally solicited
contributions for the Wisconsin Club for Growth (WCFG) in 2011 and 2012. During
early 2011, WCFG spent an estimated $320,000 plus in advertising surrounding Justice
David Prosser's re-election race, and funded the entire budget of another
group, Citizens for a Strong America (CSA), that spent over $800,000. A
Wisconsin Democracy Campaign total of the spending on behalf of Justice
Prosser, including his own campaign, showed that spending of WCFG, WMC and the
WCFG-financed Citizens for a Strong America, provided 75 percent of the $3.5
million in spending on behalf of Justice Prosser. If the public financing grant
obtained by Justice Prosser is removed as "spending," this figure
leaps to a jaw-dropping 85 percent. A review of spending on behalf of
Justice Michael Gableman, shows a similar and stunning lopsided percent from
WCFG and WMC. These two entities provided in excess of 70 percent of the $3.2
million spent on his 2008 election campaign to the court.

Don't forget, Justice Prosser put his hands around the neck of one of the more liberal justices to make his point.

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